Fall Frolic 2003
Swap Time: September 2003
Selected blocks: D8 and H12
Method: Hand Appliquéd

This swap is run annually through the Dear Jane online support list. Blocks are made in autumn tones and swapped (there is a Spring version too, but that's not my scene!!)
 I have elected to make 3 sets of 10 blocks - 2 sets of D8, and 1 set of H12.
This will give me a nice little quilt with 5x6 blocks in it. I have also made myself one of each block for my quilt.

July 17... all 20 D8 blocks are completed:

July 28... all 10 H12 blocks are completed:

July 29... I have the baggies all packed, labeled and organised, and they will fly off to the US tomorrow :-)

September 17... I have learned that I qualified for a prize! I won the "first overseas package received" prize! Woo hoo! Can't wait to see the blocks I got, but I guess I will have to.

September 23... I got my package!! My prize was a Dear Jane tin - I tried to buy one of these months ago and got nowhere. YAY!! Thankyou :-)

These are my blocks - sorry the photo isn't that good - very sunny today and I cant' re-take it as I have taken the blocks off my design wall already. Thanks very much to:
Top row: me (my 2 Aussie blocks D8 and H12)
Second row: E10 Jules Alspach (Michigan), F3 Diane Bowron (Canada), H13 Ann Placek (Arizona), I1 Pam Crecelius (Missouri), J6 Jane Herbert (California), B3 Swap Mum Kim Andrews (Minnesota)
Third row: A5 Florine Miller (California), J12 Val Champ (Canada), K2 Rochelle Hasse (Minnesota), K12 Ann Fass (New York), B2 Carole Campbell (Canada), I2 Mary Wehrman (Texas)
Fourth row:  L1 Johnnie McCallum, K9 Claudia Donolli (New York), L4 Signe Benson (Minnesota), L7 Sheri Klaich (Illinois), M2 Claudia Donolli (New York), D6 Jody Marker (Alaska)
Fifth row: C3 Lynn Frick (Pennsylvania), A8 Michelle Wehrman (Texas), C12 Lynn Frick (Pennsylvania), L8 Susan Mina (Arizona), E9 Claudia Donolli (New York), J2 Beth Kapp (Pennsylvania)
Sixth row: D7 Mary Wehrman (Texas), D3 Jules Alspach (Michigan), C1 Pia Gade (Denmark), E3 Vera-Ellen Turner (Indiana), B4 Karen Hessel (Missouri), J4 Sheri Klaich (Illinois)

October 6...I finished piecing the top! (Don't worry, I am not usually like this.) Darling Hubby bought me a new sewing machine yesterday and I had to break it in. I can't even remember how I lived without an automatic thread cutter *grin*. (Before you get too jealous, I have served my time with El Crappo bottom of the range machines - I didn't even know it but the throat of my old machine is nearly 2" smaller than standard! No wonder I hated quilting king size quilts...)
Anyway, here's the picture. Not totally sure yet, but I think I will hand quilt this. Have never hand quilted before though.

October 21... The quilt is finished! Lots of drama and heartache though - see it here.